Coimbatore: Principal of the Government School in Iduvai Village near Tirupur, which was placed under a suspension on Saturday to make caste students scheduled to clean the toilet, have repeatedly misused SC children for the past three years, according to school students and their parents.
A master told Tii that some parents had raised this problem with the principal last year after children complained that he imposed them to clean the toilet.
“At least 10 of us met the principal, but he stated that our children were wrong.
We went assuming he punished children for their mistakes, but it seems now he harasses children on behalf of caste,” said the parents that .
A class IX girl, who is one of the complainants, said he had witnessed the treatment of SC students for three years.
“On several occasions when we were discovered to arrive late to school, the principal would mock us to quote our poverty and our caste.
He will say our low caste parents have put us in government schools because they cannot afford private schools.
When he Seeing us talking to a boy, he would say that we are not good at learning and we have to get married soon, “said the student.
It was lowned that a teacher had persuaded students to take problems with the education officer of the Head of R Ramesh Regency, who visited the school on Friday.
Exhibit Prima Facie shows that the accusation is true, senior officials from the school education department.
“The principal was silent when asked, so we placed it under the suspension,” the official said.